Welcome to our new format, magazine-style podcast. Today’s episode is all about staying healthily well-balanced, whilst remote working and features guest Paul Read, who talks about teaching Tai Chi online.

We have spent the month of April redesigning the format of our 21st Century Work Life podcast. We're now almost ready to go! Meanwhile, podcast subscribers will have received four different audio blogs through their feeds. Here they are in case you missed them.

Should technology replace trust? Are there ways of using technology so that we don’t have to rely on trust to get the work done in remote teams? How much do we need to trust each other and how much should we show our work? We try to answer these questions in today’s episode.

There are many aspects of self-management that are worth incorporating into more traditional organisations: using technology to support our work, finding ways for people to choose why they work on and with whom, and shifting managers' mindsets, from supervisor and task-allocator, to enabler.

There are many valid reasons for resisting going remote in your team, but today we cover those reasons based on myths and common misconceptions about personalities suited to remote work and communication.

Have coworking spaces lost their initial purpose? Maya and Pilar discuss three recent articles about co-working: the diverse types of co-working spaces available, the move of corporations into the co-working space and whether blockchain might well bring back the original spirit of co-working.

Current research suggests that having text-based debates can diminish our perception of the other person and that audio-only conversation can build more empathy than that involving also visual elements. What does this mean for virtual teams?